#112: ON A COLD DESERT NIGHT

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A new show for Friday night, yes! And on SUNDAY, 12/6/2020, join Ken Layne and Anna Merlan for a Skylight Books virtual event, where we’ll be telling ghost stories and reading something weird from the new book and talking with you, if you choose to talk to us. Virtually, sadly. No whiskey & kissin’. Maybe next time. And we don’t know who “Lockdown Willie” is, either. It just sounded good.

Oh and this one, Wednesday evening at (virtually) McNally Jackson in New York: A conversation about the desert and probably everything else, with New York Times style editor Choire Sicha, famously of The Awl and Gawker and many other things.

Listen to tonight’s show, Episode #112, on the FM radio, from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast. Hey and if you listen on the radio, there’s a bonus episode after that. A repeat, yes, but it’s nice to hear a couple of shows together on the radio. New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and don’t forget to check out his new album, Five Flora.

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#111: THE UTAH MONOLITH

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What’s going on with that mysterious Utah monolith? What’s going on with Brendan Maze and his new “plague refugee” Substack newsletter? The small-town desert real-estate market is hot, for now, and he’s got some tips on the sorts of under-appreciated properties you might be able to afford. Especially if 10 or 12 of you go in on it, together.

This is Episode #111.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and don’t forget to check out his new album, Five Flora. You might recognize some of the tracks.

Listen on the FM radio, from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.

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#110: CONCRETE JESUS

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An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a live of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-plane factory in Los Angeles, creating death-delivery systems for the permanent Cold War. Anxious over this atomic nightmare, yet optimistic enough to think humanity could survive it, Frank Antone Martin built an enormous concrete Jesus in his Inglewood driveway.

Such is the tale. Tune in to hear it all, the whole sordid thing. It’s Episode #110, soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, snow on the western mountaintops.

Listen on the FM radio, from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.

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#109: THE GREAT CONJUNCTION

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It’s a Halloween Full Moon weekend and you better prepare for something else that’s coming up quick: the Great Conjunction of 2020. When Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer in our night sky, until their Great Conjunction as winter solstice arrives, on December 21. With guest C. Del Desierto telling tales of counting eagles in the Anza-Borrego wilderness. With new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. On the FM radio from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.

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#108: HALLOWEEN NIGHT, 2035 A.D.

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IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME, and this episode is for your October night-time, please listen responsibly. And if you enjoy the program, we appreciate your support at http://patreon.com/desertoracle. And did you know our new issue, #9, has already gone out to subscribers and is available at fine retailers in Joshua Tree, Moab, Yucca Valley, Los Angeles, Palm Springs & etc.? It’s true. Oh and we’ve got a hardcover book on the way, you can pre-order it today and get it fresh in your mailbox on publication day, December 8, coming right up.

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#107: AND THE WORD *WAS* GAIA

IT’S FRIDAY NIGHT AND NOW IS THE TIME, so here’s our 107th episode, please do what you like with it. And if you enjoy the program, please consider supporting the enterprise for just pennies per year, at http://patreon.com/desertoracle.

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Tonight, via podcast or on the radio in Joshua Tree (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. PLUS: Your mail, lots of it, a whole pile of desert picture postcards.

#106: THE EIGHTH TOWER

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Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and “military flares” is never a good enough answer for all the odd activity in the skies.

Tonight we bring you a campfire story about a particular strange sight in the sky we experienced a few years ago, and as our special guest we have the interesting and engaging Michael Hacker, narrator of eight audiobooks by the late, great John Keel. This means we will be talking about the superspectrum and VALIS and The Eighth Tower.

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You can find Michael Hacker’s many paranormal-philosophy audiobook performances at Audible.com. And you can listen to this episode as a podcast, on the radio in Joshua Tree (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks to everybody who supports the show on Patreon.

#105: BETWIXT & BETWEEN

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In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns and our institutions collapse around us, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and universally traumatized collective consciousness?

Sometimes, there are signposts in the rubble of the ongoing disaster. Now is the time for Episode #105, “Betwixt and Between.”

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#104 MESSAGE DELETED

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How are we doing out there? Pretty bad? Well nobody likes to hear “the ultraterrestrial entities told you so,” but, the ultraterrestrial entities told you so. It’s Episode #104, “MESSAGE DELETED.”

It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange, wise entities appeared in their bizarre vessel at the edge of the playground, hovering over the brush the way the White Goddess and the Queen of the Universe and the Virgin of Guadalupe always appear, so often to the relatively pure eyes and hearts of the children.

And they had a message. We did not heed the message.

Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, a fitting musical environment for tonight’s tales of environmental terror.

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#103: SECRETS OF THE SUPERSPECTRUM

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Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolution.

Well what happened is we were talking about all the desert creatures coming out of their holes at night—literally, the rabbit holes, in the case of our many Mojave cottontails and jackrabbits—and then all the sudden we went down the rabbit hole, too. At least it’s cooler down here!

John Keel, noted Fortean author, mentions in his book Operation Trojan Horse that you’ll find a lot of odd surnames amongst the UFO/mystic world, and few common names. So we did a little research and yep, it’s true. If you enjoy the program, please leave a short review! It really helps spread the word.

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